Emma played Verges/Don John/Friar in Much Ado About Nothing at the Bishop’s Palace in 2018 and Malvolia in Twelfth Night in 2019. In 2022 she played Angelo in The Comedy of Errors and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream last year. This August she’ll be fooling around as Touchstone in As You Like It.

Emma grew up in Nottingham. Her first professional job was for the Royal Shakespeare Company and since then she has worked extensively in theatre, performing at Shakespeare’s Globe, Regent’s Park, the West End, Royal Court and many regional theatres. Most recently she appeared in the RSC’s acclaimed Cowbois, and James Graham’s Punch which will transfer to the Young Vic next year.

Emma has an extensive background in Shakespeare, performing in As You Like It, Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 for the RSC and for Shakespeare’s Globe, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet as well as As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing which both toured to Kilkenny Arts Festival.